Survival stories tell about living through an exciting and often dangerous experience, where the main character or characters are placed in circumstances that test their courage and their intelligence. Often set in remote areas, far away from help, survival stories can be based on real life events and can also include the recounting of someone's actual experiences.

Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.

Her idyllic teen years on a British Colombia dairy farm with her mother and brother irrevocably changed by the arrival of a draft dodger, Natalie Ward remembers years later the impact he had on the morals and beliefs of their community.

While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, 16 year old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies, and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.

Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, 13 year old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there be reunited with her father.

In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, becomes nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.

In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.

Hope knows that as far as her parents are concerned, she's hopeless. Oksana doesn't have a mum, and her dad and brother are in Russia. She thought Europe would offer a better life - instead, bought and sold into prostitution, she feels dirty and used. Then, Oksana and Hope are thrown together in the most terrifying circumstances.

When 17 year old Becky Martin, an aspiring comic, meets Kip Costello, she is caught in a mentally and physically abuse relationship. A hard-hitting novel that breaks open the gritty world of teen relationship abuse.

Brian is on his way to the Canadian wilderness to visit his father, when the pilot of the single engine plane has a heart attack, and the plan crash lands. Brain is left alone in the wilderness with only a hatchet and his wits.

Twelve-year-old Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New Orleans, and together they survive the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, learning about each other and growing closer through their painful experiences.

During World War II, life for Jutka, a 14-year-old Hungarian Jew, turns upside down within a matter of months. Jutka and her family are transported to Auschwitz, where her mother and grandmother perish, and where she endures unimaginable cruelty.

Set in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, just after the war for independence, a young English boy, Jacklin, is torn between his black friends at school and his sympathy for the colonial whites after witnessing the compulsory land seizures by Robert Mugabe's government. But with an imminent visit by Robert Mugabe to the school, Jacklin realizes that Ivan, his white supremacist schoolmate, plans to assassinate the black leader.

After being taken in by a family of coca farmers, Diego is devastated when the army threatens to destroy the only source of income they have and so works to stop the army and save the people he has come to love.

Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village; however, their dreams for the future are shattered when the Taliban burns down the school and threatens the teacher and students with death.